advent09 | love addendum

More than anything this past week, God brought me the word "dwell", or living among, in relation to the concept of love.

I saw it in the way God loves me: God chose to show His love by being with us (Emmanuel/God With Us).

I saw it in the small miracles He brought me all week: the week was full and there were so many moving parts that all had to come together. And He was with me. A complication would arise. Immediate solutions did not come to mind. I ask for help. And not two minutes later, a perfect solution arrives. Over and over and over again. Seriously, more than I have ever experienced, God was present. He was sitting at the kitchen counter or in the seat next to me in the car talking to me and doing for me. His nearness, his dwelling with me by being present in the insignificant details of my life, was love.

I saw it in the saddness of Kristen leaving. That we got to dwell in the same town for these past years was a gift. There were good times and hard times and very ordinary mundane times. But family love -- the kind where you invest in each other and are committed to each other and get bored around each other and joke and irritate and help and are WITH each other -- there are rare and valuable riches found in that kind of love.

OK. Well, that's all I have. Just wanted to record it for posterity. And to remind myself to do a word study on "dwell"...